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  • I do a lot of incredibly specific VHDL and 45GS02 asm, so the answer is none.

    Even if I didn’t do obscure things with obscure languages, answer’d still be none, because I’d rather spend a few hours learning what the code does and how to use it, instead of “just hope the output runs” while not knowing what and why it’s trying to do what it’s doing.


  • The hell is autocorrect? (I use Unexpected Keyboard)

    Also, my distro of choice is generally Debian or Kubuntu. I am aware that using canonical’s distro is gonna get me skinned alive, and I have serious issues with some of the OS, but it also hasn’t given me enough frustration to outright replace it yet. Especially when you consider that I’m running it on a Surface Pro 9 of all things, and Debian doesn’t have a new enough Plasma version last I checked.

    Wow, that was a rant, oops.



  • Been on a break for a bit, but before that we got a Tektronix 535A oscilloscope from the 1950s-60s up and running (with the exception of a gain issue with the vertical amplifier, haven’t quite figured out the cause yet), and did some work on reverse-engineering and emulating the analog filters of the MOS 8580 SID on an FPGA (still heavily WIP, haven’t gotten around to a rewrite yet so it’s still really jank, college is a bitch).



  • 0x30507DEtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldEssential movies to watch
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    11 months ago

    Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I’m a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).


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    1 year ago

    I grew up with a Wii and an Atari 2600, and my favorite console is, no surprise, probably the 2600. Both because I put wayyy too much time into it, and because it’s incredibly neat from a hardware perspective (seriously, that anyone actually managed to make functioning games on it is a miracle).



  • FPGAs are good fun, and some of the stuff I’m working on in particular gets even crazier. My current project is emulating a partially analog soundchip (the 6581 and 8580 SIDs) with 32 bit integers, because FPGAs can’t do analog. The best part is, it actually (mostly) works. Still have coefficient issues with the RC circuits, and the Rf1 and Rf2 voltage-controlled resistor coefficient tables need to be recalculated, but it’s already looking pretty good.

    Good fun lol